| | |  | Sybex | Home » » » » SCJP: Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform Study Guide: SE6 (Exam CX-310-065) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Sun's foundation-level Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) for Standard Edition 6 is a must-have for any Java programmer, and is a prerequisite for Sun’s specialty certifications. This resource is essential preparation for the SCJP and focuses heavily on the skill set that Sun expects its SCJPs to have, with numerous examples, exercises, and real-world scenarios to give readers the tools needed to use what they learn. The material covers declarations, initialization, and scoping; flow control; API contents; concurrency; object-oriented concepts; collections/generics; and fundamentals. The interactive CD-ROM features chapter review questions, two bonus exams, a series of flashcards that can be used on PCs or handheld devices, and an e-book.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Richard F. Raposa | | Paperback:
| 576 pages | | Publisher:
| Sybex | | Publication Date:
| March 23, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470417978 | | Product Length:
| 9.24 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.28 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.32 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.89 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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16 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 This Java SCJP SE6 Study Guide makes a nice companion guide.Apr 13, 2009
By John R. Daniel
This is a nice book that covers all the basics for the SCJP Java SE6 exam. Raposa has lots of example code and hundreds of practice questions to help you prepare for the exam. However, his text reads something like the Cliff Notes version of Java. He covers all the topics, but he does it rather quickly. If you already have a firm grasp of Java, and you are just looking for a tune up, then this relatively short study guide is a good choice. It also makes a nice "second pass" for one of the other more popular study guides. That's the reason I bought it. I'd already finished Kathy Sierra's book, and I wanted a 2nd perceptive. Raposa's book worked great in that role. Bottom line is if you're going to buy just one SE6 Study Guide, don't buy this one. However, if you want a 2nd Study Guide, then this is a nice choice.
After reading the last paragraph, you might be wondering why I rated this book only three stars. I give the text of the book four stars for all the excellent examples and sample test questions. However, I subtracted an extra star for two problems that have nothing to do with the text itself. The first issue is the poor quality paper the book is printed on. It this was some fantasy novel, it wouldn't matter. But being a textbook which readers will probably want to highlight passages from, the paper is so thin that the highlighter bleeds right through the page. The second issue is something called the Sybex Test Engine. As I've previously stated, one of the best features of this book is all the sample questions. Sybex, the publisher, put them all on a CD to practice with, which is really a nice idea. However, their test engine displays only a few lines of code at a time, making the reader scroll up and down through the question. This makes the questions unnecessarily difficult.
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Helpful overallJun 08, 2010
By ajeffries
I just wanted to agree with the previous review. I used this book as a secondary book in my SCJP studies. I used the K+B book first and mainly used this book for its quizzes and test exams. I also agree with the previous review that the content of the book is a little on the brief side if you are starting from scratch. Also, the book covers several areas not on the exam (bit shifting, others). If you are looking for a good secondary source, I would recommend this book. Between the Bert and Sierra book and this one, you have a very large pool of questions to study from.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 You will clear the exam for sure!Dec 19, 2010
By Mat
This book has all the essentials necessary to clear the certification exam. I used this book and only this twice (once in 2002 and once in 2009 for upgrade). I did not go through any brain dumps. But, you should be very careful reading every tit bit in this book before giving the certification.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
questions proximated the exam wellDec 14, 2010
By Marcus Chen
Disclosure: I passed the exam and found this book helpful. I have over 14 years of OO software development experience but have only used Java intermittently. After reading the previous comments I got a soft copy of this book. Prior to that I started on Mughal but found that many of its topics were not part of the exam. I liked its contents but decided it wasn't the best book for the purpose of passing the exam. Then I read through Sierra and Bates where I consistently scored around 50% on its questions in the book and CD. Its questions are tougher than the exams with many trick gotcha samples that I didn't find in the exam. I didn't particularly like the "check all apply" questions. You won't find them in the real exam. Thinking that I need more help I decided to give this book a try. First off its brevity is certainly attractive. Why read 1000+ pages when you could get the same with half the pages. I read through this book in a week and did all the questions. My score has been around 70%. My exam score was 75% so in that sense it's a pretty good proxy of how well you'll do. This book is not for beginners and I agree it should be used in conjunction with other books.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A well written book, but with a few errors. Software has several problems.Nov 24, 2010
By javamatt
A very well written book but with some errors. The software has several problems, the biggest one being several errors and typos in the practice tests.
A great thing about this book is the ability to download all the code examples and mess with them. Other SCJP books do not allow this. It has saved me a lot of time.
Do not buy this book for the practice test software. The book itself, however, is pretty good.
Update: The book states its mock exams are close to the actual difficulty level of the real exam. However, after taking the exam (and thankfully passing) I can say this is not quite the case. I advise getting other tests in addition to the ones in this book. Overall, though, it's still a good book.
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